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Nostalgia

nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    KittenBiscuits @lemm.ee

    My Busch Gardens (The Olde Country™) name badge from 1996

    BG was sponsoring the Atlanta Olympics that year, and some marketing person thought it would be a fun idea to put our home state on name badges as kind of a US ambassador-like gesture I guess for all the extra visitors the parks expected.

    I don't know if we saw an increase in visitors that year. Williamsburg is like a 12 hour drive from Atlanta. But I did have one guy complain to me about the Italian food we sold in the cafeteria, that it was horrid, and his wife was Italian, and she couldn't eat this. Almost 30 years later and I still remember that guy. Why was he remotely expecting decent food at a theme park? I have no idea. And I still have Funiculì, Funiculà running through my head on occasion. Thanks BG.

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    OpticalMoose @discuss.tchncs.de

    Alright, show. You've got 60 seconds to make your pitch. Go.

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    When you would low-key judge your friend's parents level of tech-savvyness by noting if their VCR was always flashing 12:00

    Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. "E" for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.

    Related Question: What is the 2025 equivalent to this?

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    gedaliyah @lemmy.world

    Throwback to 30 years ago, when serious people honestly debated whether this was real

    I remember this was a huge phenomenon when it came out and people were recording it on their home VCR's and playing it back frame by blurry frame. News programs reported on it. Serious people discussed the reasons why they thought it was fake, as though it wasn't just grainy footage of a plaster dummy stuffed with spiced meats.

    It sparked a genuine debate about whether we were alone in the universe, and what that would mean for human beings. It's really amazing how easy it was to pull off such an obvious hoax and full a lot of people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Autopsy_(1995_film)

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    TORFdot0 @lemmy.world

    Back when Bart Simpson was the mascot for butterfinger

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Where Did This '90s Classroom Art Come From?

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    concrete_baby @sh.itjust.works

    DK Eyewitness

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    ByteOnBikes @slrpnk.net

    They still exist in small towns. But not in my modern city.

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    perishthethought @lemm.ee

    The Young Ones - S1E1- "Demolition" (1981)

    I think of Rick every time I read "fascist" on this site.

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    Blaze @discuss.online

    Point-and-shoot cameras

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    perishthethought @lemm.ee

    90s games on floppies

    Doom I and II, Rise of the Triad. Windows 3.1. Anyone else old enough to remember floppy swapping?

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

    Remember stamp markers?

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.cafe

    Can you hear this picture?

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Windows 98 Defrag, with DriveSpace

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    The 80s were such a different time